Git development was started by Torvalds in April 2005 when the proprietary source-control management (SCM) system used for Linux kernel development since 2002, BitKeeper, revoked its free license for Linux development. There are many popular offerings of Git repository services, including GitHub, SourceForge, Bitbucket and GitLab. Since its creation, Git has become the most popular distributed version control system, with nearly 95% of developers reporting it as their primary version control system as of 2022. Git is free and open-source software shared under the GPL-2.0-only license. As with most other distributed version control systems, and unlike most client–server systems, every Git directory on every computer is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full version-tracking abilities, independent of network access or a central server. Since 2005, Junio Hamano has been the core maintainer.

Git was originally authored by Linus Torvalds in 2005 for development of the Linux kernel, with other kernel developers contributing to its initial development.

Its goals include speed, data integrity, and support for distributed, non-linear workflows (thousands of parallel branches running on different computers). Git ( / ɡ ɪ t/) is a distributed version control system that tracks changes in any set of computer files, usually used for coordinating work among programmers who are collaboratively developing source code during software development. POSIX ( Linux, macOS, Solaris, AIX), Windows Primarily in C, with GUI and programming scripts written in Shell script, Perl, Tcl and Python

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